Indigenous women and violence : feminist activist research in heightened states of injustice

Stephen, Lynn (editor.). Speed, Shannon, 1964- (editor.).

Summary: "An intimate view of how inequality and deeply ingrained structural settler colonialism build accumulated violences in the lives of indigenous women and how these women resist." --

Record details

ISBN: 9780816539451 (softcover)
Physical Description: print
x, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Indigenous women and violence -- Grief and an Indigenous feminist's rage: the embodied field of knowledge production -- Prison as a colonial enclave: incarcerated Indigenous women resisting multiple violence -- Women defenders and the fight for gender justice in Indigenous territories -- The case of Sepur Zarco and the challenge of the colonial state -- Confronting gendered embodied structures of violence: Mam indigenous women seeking justice in Guatemala and the United States -- Gender-territorial justice and the "war against life": anticolonial road maps in Mexico -- Ethical tribunals and gendered violence in Guatemala's armed conflict -- SOVERYEMPTY narrative DeneNdé poetics in walled homelands -- Epilogue: Indigenous women and violence in the time of coronavirus.